Public Events

Public Events

Penn State Great Valley will host one of its signature Management Research Showcase events featuring research from assistant professor of finance management Sang Mook Lee from noon to 1 p.m. Wednesday, March 11, in Room 230 of the Main Building.

Three Security and Risk Analysis (SRA) students from the College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST) will present their research on human trafficking networks at the 13th annual Undergraduate Research at the Capitol -- Pennsylvania (URC-PA) Conference on March 3.

William F. Hederman Jr., deputy director for systems integration and senior adviser to the secretary at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), will be giving the talk “Lessons from the First Quadrennial Energy Review Important Trends, Challenges and Recommendations” on Wednesday, March 4.

Penn State’s Department of Nutritional Sciences will host an event showcasing its work, goals and impact March 16. The event, which will feature keynote speakers, a tour of the department’s facilities, giveaways and research posters, will take place from 1 to 5 p.m. in Chandlee Laboratory and the Bennett Pierce Living Center.

A free public lecture titled "Using Relativity to Discover Planets" by Jason Wright, assistant professor of astronomy and astrophysics at Penn State, will begin at 11:00 a.m. on Saturday, February 21, in 100 Thomas Building on the Penn State University Park campus.

Penn State Stuckeman School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture faculty members Scott Wing and David Goldberg will talk Monday, Feb. 9, as part of the brown-bag Lunchtime Lectures series featuring innovative projects that integrate arts and design research with science and technology.

Cory Scherer will discuss evolutionary-based research on sex differences in jealousy and present findings on why widowers are at an advantage with regards to dating when the Colloquium Series in Psychological Sciences and Human Behavior returns to Penn State Erie, The Behrend College on Thursday, Feb. 19.

A free public lecture titled "Understanding Einstein's greatest discovery," begins at 11 a.m. Saturday Jan. 24, in 100 Thomas Building on the Penn State University Park campus. The event is the first of six weekly lectures in a free minicourse, the 2015 Penn State Lectures on the Frontiers of Science. The speaker will be John D. Norton, professor of physics and director of the Center for Philosophy of Science at the University of Pittsburgh. The overall theme of the 2015 lecture series is "100 Years After Einstein's Greatest Discovery: New Science from General Relativity." No registration is required.

On Monday, Jan. 26, Penn State School of Music and School of Theatre faculty member Mark Ballora will give the first talk in a new brown-bag Lunchtime Lectures series featuring innovative projects that integrate arts and design research with science and technology.

Penn State will host the satellite location of the National Council for Science and the Environment Energy and Climate Change Conference and Global Forum on Science, Policy and the Environment. The main conference will take place in Washington D.C. Jan. 27 through 29.

The Penn State Center for Healthy Aging will host a number of lectures this spring as part of its Healthy Aging Community Lecture Series. The first event will be held Jan. 29 at The Village at Penn State.